Five refugees dead in Greek camps since last week. Several others tried to commit suicide. Does life still matter in Europe?

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Death in Greek Camps
Published on January 29, 2017 in Uncategorized. Closed

Tags: death at border, deportations, detention, EU-Turkey Deal, greece,
Hot Spots, killing borders, mismanagement of funds, reception
conditions, turkey.

Five refugees dead in Greek camps since last week. Several others tried
to commit suicide. Does life still matter in Europe?

– On Monday 30th of January a 20-year old refugee from Pakistan died in
Moria Hot Spot.

– On Saturday 28th of January a 46-year-old Syrian passed away in Moria
Hot Spot detention centre reportedly from hypothermia. He was staying in
the same tent as another man who died only four days ago.

– Meanwhile the same day in Ritsona camp in mainland Greece a
two-months-old baby was transferred to hospital in Chalkida due to a
cystic fibrosis and later on passed away in the ambulance which was
taking it to Athens. While the parents had to deal with tremendous
problems in finding help for their sick child since it was born, and
were under shock of its sudden death authorities and media chose to
accuse them for the for minor neglect and bring them to the local police
station. Read here: Announcement of the solidarity group in Chalkida

– On Wednesday 25th of January a 42-year-old refugee named Benjo
Massoud, father of three children, had passed away in the overcrowded
Hot Spot on Samos Island. According to Greek media the Kurdish refugee
from Iraq had visited on Wednesday morning the camp doctor suffering
from a pain in the chest. He reported to suffer from Diabetes and blood
high pressure. A cardiogram was made and he got referred immediately to
the hospital of the island, where he died while waiting to be examined.
An employee of the camp said that the refugee had received already some
days ago a letter of the doctor asking for heart exams in the hospital
of the island, but he remained in his tent with his family the days that
was very cold. Few days ago he had found by himself an empty container
and settled in it together with his family. When he informed the camp
managers, they just registered the transfer to the prefabricated house.
The refugee had arrived on December 7th and went through first reception
procedures without anyone noticing any heart problem. Already back in
October Medicines Sans Frontiers reported the inadequacy of the system
to screen new arrivals for vulnerability in the Hot Spots of the Aegean.

-One day before, on Tuesday the 24th, a 21-year-old Egyptian refugee was
found dead in his tent by a friend in the Hot Spot in Moria on Lesbos
Island. The cause of his death is still unknown. While reportedly his
death was caused by the kerosine heaters’ gas he had inhaled while
trying to keep himself warm. According to a lawyer who took part in a
UNHCR Protection meeting, they got informed that the young Egyptian had
been autopsied.

– It was not the first death of this winter in Moria. At the end of
November 2016 a a 60-year-old woman and her 5-year-old grandchild died
in a fire inside their tent while the woman was cooking dinner.

Meanwhile the inhuman conditions have led people to try to commit suicide


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On Tuesday four suicide attempts took place in the camp of Samos. A
refugee climbed a tree and threatened to hang; another visited the
clinic with many [self]-injuries all over his body; yet another had
swallowed a razor blade and the fourth had swallowed pills. In total
seven refugees tried to commit suicide within the last two weeks only in
Samos.
Protests in the camps

The day before, refugees had protested inside Samos Hot Spot desperately
asking for help and denouncing the severe lack of doctors while there
were reportedly many cases of sick people.

“The problem on Samos Island in Greece is that too many people have died.
We don’t know why they are not doing anything. We don’t have doctors
and they don’t give us any help.
The water and bread all are expired.
If we don’t eat we have to stay hungry.
We are all together sick.
When I was sick the doctor told me: Come back after 2 months so
I give you an info guide.
My wife also has many problems. But they don’t do anything
and I have 5 children.
Please tell us why?
We don’t know what we should do.
Help please! Help us.”